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Troops, tanks enter camp, fight gunmen

MIDDLE EAST — Israeli tanks and troops entered a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, exchanging fire with gunmen, according to Palestinian security officials and witnesses.

A 62-year-old bystander was wounded, apparently while watching the incursion into the Bureij refugee camp from his window, Palestinians said.

Israel's military said a routine operation was under way. Palestinians said that about 10 Israeli tanks entered the refugee camp and that soldiers searched houses. The incursion came after a settler was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday by an infiltrator in the Kfar Darom settlement in Gaza.

Also Tuesday, Israel said its Shin Bet security service captured all 10 members of an Islamic Jihad cell accused of attacks in the Hebron area, where 16 Israelis were killed.